The tie system is being changed to something more reasonable: https://us.battle.net/forums/en/over...4425436#post-1

This is a lot closer to what I envisioned when I originally heard they wanted to rework the system.

This is a good, sensible change.

Yep that's good. Even tho the sombra cheesing has been hilarious.

Nope. Gotten to the last Orisa three times. Haven't closed the deal. Tried getting groups on the reddit discord which is hit or miss. Half the time I'm trying is wasted by people who don't know the basic strats. Trying to pug it is worthless.

If I didn't have every other special event achievement, I'd just forget about it. Damn completionism.

Somehow just lost 36 SR without any kind of loss streak in a bad game with Rein. Admittedly my stats for the game sucked, but 36 seems way too extreme. I swear 10/10 of my biggest individual games lost SR not factoring in loss streaks have been w/ him, while I rarely gain more than 25 for a win w/ him compared to other tanks (gaining 25+ seems to happen with Zarya especially often). He's also really difficult to solo queue in general b/c people tend not to coordinate as well. Back to 80% Zarya/support when I solo.

I couldn't even get a win on expert before giving up.

I've only tried Legendary maybe three times. Once we lost without getting past the first point. Second time we lost on the second point.

Third time we were doing alright (Orisa, Mercy, Rein, Bastion) and got to the payload, but our Rein went way too aggressive. He would charge those big bomb things right away instead of letting us kill them or wait until the last second to charge. In the meantime, we needed his shield and eventually couldn't hold out.

I found legendary all-heroes not bad. Legendary preset heroes is hard though, there's always someone doing it very wrong.

Know what would be nice? If when playing Legendary on Uprising, I didn't end up in a team with a Roadhog twice in a row. It was Roadhog/D-va at that.

I was looking around at the cute spray achievements (http://overwatch.wikia.com/wiki/Cute_spray) and decided to try to get Reinhardt's. It seems easy. All you need to do is hit an earthshatter, fire strike, and charge. I hardly ever play Reinhardt, but I've been playing him on quick play ever since the Uprising event started, since I realized he can be an interesting character to play.

But I can't seem to get the achievement. Earthshatter, firestrike alone is 150 points, so squishies who've taken just a little damage will die before you can even charge. So you have to hit more robust characters. But then you have to worry about your own teammates, who'll likely start shooting at the stunned opponents, killing them before your charge lands.

Then yesterday, I thought I finally had it. Roadhog was there. No shield. My teammates were far enough behind me that they probably wouldn't kill Roadhog before my charge hits. So I'm charging at him and what happens? Enemy Junkrat threw a mine at me, changing my direction.

Fine, I'll try again next round. Same thing happens, I have Roadhog in my sights. Ult. Fire strike! Charge!!

Boop. God damn Lucio!

Normally when you shatter, you want to catch 3+ enemies. That means the fire strike often hits two of them, and at least one will live for the charge.

You have the right idea, just go for roadhog/dva and you'll get it soon.

I'll admit, I got a little internally salty last night when I played Mystery Heroes and didn't get POTG.

I was Reaper and my team barely touched the payload on Numbani. A few seconds left, my ult was at 98%, but since four opponents were on the point, I couldn't get close enough to take a couple shots and fuel the ult. I wraith formed in out of desperation and when I de-cloaked, I was at 99% and overtime had started. Took one shot at someone, hit, and my ult got to 100%. I hit Q instantly, got a quad-kill, my team took the point and went on to win.

I also got stupidly annoyed when my team had two Reins (I was one of them) on defense on Eichenwald. We started alternating shields on the choke, but then the other Rein decided to charge through the choke, into the entire opposing team. He died ldo and they all just focus-fired on my shield.

I do like Mystery Heroes, though.

Mystery Heroes is probably my favorite game mode right now. Much less salty than other game modes and you get to try heroes you rarely use. Sure, there are games when you're totally ineffective as [insert hero you rarely play], but then you'll get games where you dominate with that same hero and it makes you want to play it more often.

I'll never pick Widow or Hanzo in QP or competitive, but then I'll have games where I get a 10+ kill streak and it feels great. Or games where I just dive in, wreck the opponent as Winston, then get out. Yes, there'll be games where I dive in as Winston and get melted immediately, but it's still fun.

As for your quad kill, it's amazing that you didn't get POTG. I guess someone else must have also gotten a quad or more kill.

New DVa Skin:



The catch is that you have to play 5 games with a friend in Heroes of the Storm two weeks in a row. You also get 10 Overwatch loot boxes if you play 5 HotS games with a friend for weeks in a row.

She's also a character in Heroes of the Storm, along with Genji, both of whom were released today.

Guess I'll have to download Heroes of the Storm and find a friend.

I understated how much Overwatch stuff you get by playing HotS.

Week 1: Genji skin, icon, and spray

Week 2: Officer D.Va skin

Week 3: Office D.Va Icon and spray

Week 4: 10 loot boxes.

For week 1, the requirement is 5 games with friends in Vs AI, Quick Match, Unranked, or ranked mode. For weeks 2 through 4, it's the same except game vs AI don't count.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/articl...er-racist-rant

Extremely NSFW:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLbkVPXxNTI

who?

one of those "professional" gamers that doesn't get paid

Played a little bit today and saw a really good strategy on Oasis.

The opposing team had a Mercy pocket a Reaper the entire game. Every round (and my team was dumb for not countering this, even though we figured out it was coming), the two of them, sometimes escorted by another teammate, would flank us immediately, just demolishing our supports and assorted squishies (I was one of them).

It was difficult to counter (again, my team was dumb and didn't really try to figure it out) because if you go after Mercy, Reaper is still blasting away at you, but if you go after Reaper, he's damage boosted or being healed. Mercy and Reaper were joined at the him nearly the entire game.

that's just a your team problem, not a wow reaper/mercy is so op problem

Oh, no doubt. I just hadn't seen that done before and with such persistence. It worked very well. It was frustrating, but I was impressed with the creativity (I don't know if it was really creative, but I hadn't seen it before).

Played a lot of hanzo games last night.

My best game was with a 5 stack who had a girl streaming on twitch.

Went like 35-4 with a quint potg, felt nice.

Then got some quality games with a 3 man stack who was cool to me, and I crushed with them.

Then got a dude who everytime I would die would emote thanks, so I started emoting everytime I got a pick and he died. About 60% through the game on King's Row he had been doing bad and I went from silvers to golds. Combo of him dying, me getting a pick, and a few "Thanks" emotes and he completely went off the rails against me. Was hilarious.

sometimes Hanzo gets gold because the rest of his team lacks healing/tanking and die while he's solo deathmatching from a distance. probably why he's chosen less than 1% in comp.